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Save the Children Alternative Gift Catalog: Amazing

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Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program? Save the Children. As with my previous post, this is an open invitation to any shop for a cause or gift the gift of a donation to a charity service or project to leave a comment.

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MarketForce partners with Cellulant to expand in five new markets across Africa as it races to cover continent

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The startup has today announced entry of RejaReja, the B2B retail marketplace, into Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, after successful pilot programs, coming about two months after it grew beyond Kenya by launching in Nigeria.

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SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the world’s next bread basket, one solar water pump at a time

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.” With the $14 million in funding, from investors including Energy Access Ventures (EAV), Électricité de France (EDF), Acumen Capital Partners (ACP) and Dream Project Incubators (DPI), SunCulture will expand its footprint in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Togo and Cote D’Ivoire, the company said. .

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Meet the women-led web3 startups from Thousand Faces’ demo day

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Here’s a breakdown of Thousand Faces’ top 10 startups the Female Founder Accelerator: Company name: Kleiderly What it does: Recycle textile waste Founder: Alina Bassi Country: Germany The pitch: Kleiderly recycles unwanted textile waste and turns that into its patented plastic alternative in hopes of replacing the need for plastics.

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Is YC turning into a kind of fight club?

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As early as 2018, our own Romain Dillet was making his own VPN server using WireGuard, a faster and more secure alternative to existing VPN software. What it does (or will do): offers free online trading accounts that allows users to invest in stocks, crypto and other alternative assets in one place. Firezone and Netmaker.

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Underwear for Africa and Reclaiming A September 11th Birthday

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And without offering an alternative to the cheap pieces, vendors sell them anyway and people continue to purchase them. million and build 333 wells in Ethiopia. The sale of used underwear is banned in Kenya, because, the government says, the garments are unhygienic and harmful to its wearers. They hope to raise $1.5

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

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Location : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ” How it says it differs from rivals : The one-year-old startup claims to be the leading food delivery service in Ethiopia and is 67% cheaper than the competition. beU delivery. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 300. What it says it does : Runs a food delivery service in Africa.

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